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KYOTO

Kyoto from A.D. 794 to 1868 was the capital of Japan. Its sacred and classic associations as well as the picturesque character of the surrounding country combine to invest the city with an interest attaching to no other place in Japan. Kyoto has excellent hotel accommodation for foreign tourists. The city lies practically in the centre of Japan on the main line of railway, and is reached from Kobe in about three hours.

DIRECTORY

GONIKAI HOTEL (Dai Nippon Hotel Co., Ltd.), Yamada Ise; Tel. Ad: Gonikai; Teleph. No. 52

N. Nishimura, president

Y. Akuzawa, manager

MIYAKO HOTEL (Dai Nippon Hotel Co., Ltd.), Sanjo Awata; Tel. Ad: Miyako Kyoto; Teleph Nos. Kami 421 and 338

N. Nishimura, president M. Hamaguchi, manager

KYOTO UNIVERSITY, IMPERIAL (See Mom- bu-Sho in Tokyo section); Teleph 460.

President-Mitsura Kuhard

KYOTO HOTEL-K. Inouye, proprietor

WILMINA JO GAKKO, Amer. Presbyterian Mission Girls' School, Niyemon-cho, Higashi-ku

Miss Agnes Morgan Miss Sallie Alexander Miss Evelyn Maguet Miss Annie Hail

KOBE-HYOGO

Kobe was until 1892 the foreign port of the adjoining town of Hyogo and was opened to foreign trade in 1868, but in 1899 the two towns were incorporated under the title of Kobe City, when the City Municipal Law was put into force. The port is finely situated on the idzumi-nada, at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is good and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size, but to extend the facilities for loading and discharging an extensive scheme of harbour improvement was begun in 1907 and is proceeding. The two towns face the land-locked water covered with white sails, while behind, at a distance of about a mile, rises a range of picturesque and lofty hills, some of which attain an altitude of about 3,000 feet, and the steep sides of which are partly covered with pines. On one of these hills, Rokkosan, are a number of foreign residences, the place having become a favourite summer resort. The summit of this hill has been well prepared for the purpose, several miles of excellent paths making walking on the hills easy and enjoyable. Among the attractions of Rokkosan are excellent golf links. Kobe and Hyogo stretch for some five miles along the strip of land between the hills and the water, and the former is rapidly extending in the direction of Osaka, which is connected with Kobe by the Hanshin Electric Railway. What was at one time known as the foreign settlement at Kobe is well laid out, the streets are broad and clean, and lighted with gas. The Bund has a fine stone embankment and extends the whole length of the foreign business quarter. The foreign houses are neatly built, and the Sannomiya railway station, within three minutes' walk of the Bund, has a very English look. The railway terminus is at the other end of Kobe, where it meets Hyogo, and there are extensive carriage works adjoining the station. There are four Clubs-the Kobe Club (British, but including members of all nationalities), the Club Concordia (German), the Masonic Club, and the Oriental Club (Indian). At Mirume the K. R. & A. C. have a fine boathouse and

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